Paramount Joins the Movie Clip Game

ParamountClips.com will launch Tuesday, according to The New York Times. As the name suggests, the site will archive clips from a number of Paramount films, including The Godfather and Top Gun.

ParamountClips.com will launch Tuesday, according to The New York Times. As the name suggests, the site will archive clips from a number of Paramount films, including The Godfather and Top Gun.

This would seem to spell bad news for AnyClip.com and MovieClips.com, both services that have quietly sprung up as archives for movie clips. (AnyClip promises to allow users to select any clip from any movie, anywhere; however, the site is still invitation-only. MovieClips.com is open to the public, but with only 12,000 clips.)

ParamountClips.com plans to market itself as a clearinghouse for clips
for commercial enterprises, such as ad campaigns, according to the Times.
Over time, consumers may also be allowed to use the clips for their own
purposes. (ParamountClips.com redirects to InScene.com, although an
image on the site identifies it as "ParamountClips". Users can already
begin signing up.)

Going forward, it appears that if a network of content creators begin
indexing their own content for public use, sites like MovieClips will
be forced to either compete on ease of use or on breadth of content. So
far, the ParamountClips.com venture will allow users to search by
actor, line of dialogue, location, and other metrics. If true, that's a
step beyond MovieClips, which doesn't seem to allow line-y-line
searching, but does add the ability to search by somewhat odd criteria,
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